Sharp County record., 1887-04-28
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Letter. with wider room and Ta!eclueS De-
yopl computation; the dullest OF US lh'c
Co1;Danionship with the very best spirits
in their very best mood, in the very parloI
of the universe, the four @alls Durnisneu
and paneled and pictured ana slofih!eo
with all the splendors that the infinite
God in al! the ages has been able 10 III
vent. VictOryl
This view Of course makes It Of but llt.
tie importance whether we are creInat%u
or sepulturel. If the latter IS dust to
dust, the former is ashes to ashes. II any
prefer incineration let them have it with
oat carlcature. The world may become SO
crowded that cremation may be uniVer,
sallv adopted by law as well as by general
consent. Many Of the mightie5t and pest
spirits have gone through this process,
Thousands and tens of thousands OF
Gods children have been cFemateh-
p p. Bliss and wife, the evargelishc
singers. cremated by accident at Ashta'
bula bridge; sohn Rodgers, cremated oy
persecution; Latimer atd Ridley, cremat'
ed at oxford: Potninus and Btlrjina, a
slave and Alexander, a physician, eAo
their comrades, cremated at the order OF
Marcus Aurelius-at least one huhureu
Thousand Of Christ's disciples cremated-
and there can be no doubt about the re-
surrection OF their bodies.
If the world lasts as much longer as
has already been built, there perhaps
NAV be no room for the large acreage SET
apart for the resting places, but that
time has not come. Plenty of room yeti
and the race need not pass that bridge OF
fire until 1t comes to it. The most OF US
prefer the old way. But whether out OF
natural disntegration or cremation, we
shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad'
some, transcendent, magnificent, mex
nlicable structure called the resurrection
body. you will have it, will have H. l
say to you to-day, as Paul said to Agrlp-
pa! Ant.
WHY should it be Thought a thing incredible
with YOU that God should raise the dead.
The far-up cloud, higher than the haWk
flies, higher than the eagle flies, what IS it
made of Drops of water from the Hud-
son, other drops from the Eas River, other
drops from a stagnant pool out on Newark
flats-up wonder there, and embodied In a
cloud, and the sun kndles it, If God can
make such a lustrous cloud Of water
drops, many of them soiled and impure
and fetched from miles away, can he not
transport the fragments OF the human
bodv from the earth, and out of them build
a radiant bOdy' Can not God, who owns
all the material out of which bones and
muscle and flesh are made, set them up
again if they have TALENT If manufact'
urer of telescopes drop telescope on the
floor, and it breaks, can he not mend
it again so you can see through
itl And if God drops the human
eve into the dust, the eye which
he originally fashioned, can he not
restore itl Aye, if the manufacturer OF
the telescope, by a change OF the glass and
a change Of focus, can make better glass
than that which was originally con-
structed, and actually improve 1t, do you
not think the fashoner Of the human eye
NAV improve its sight and multiply the
natural eye by the thousand-fold addition
al force Of the resurrection eyei
Why should It be thought a thing Incredible
with you that God should raise the dead'
Things all around US suggest it. Out OF
what grew all these f1owersl Olt OF the
mold and the earth. Resurrectedl Resur'
rected The radiant butterfly, where did
it come from! The loathsome caterpillar.
That albatross that smites the tempest
with It's wing, where did it come FRONT a
senseles5 shell
Near Bergerac, France, in a Celtic tomb
under a block, were found flower seed
that had been buried two thousand years
The explorer took the flower seed and
planted it, and it came up; it bloomed IN
bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrected!
A traveller says he found in a mummy
pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there three thousand years ago
He brought them out, and on the 4th Of
June, 1874, he planted them, and in thlIty
days they sprang up. Buried three thou
sand years, yet res urrected.
Why should it be thought thing incredible
with you that God should raise the dead'
Where did all this silk come from-the
silk that adorns your persons and your
honest In the hollow of a staff a Greek
missionary brought from China to Europe
the progenitors of those worms that now
supply the silk markets of many nations.
The pageantry of hammered host and the
luxurious articles of commercial empo-
rum blazing out from the silk worms.
And who shall be surprised If out OF this
insignificant earthly body, this insgnh-
cant earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy Of the coming eterni-
ties.
Put silver into diluted nitre and it dis
solves. Is the silver gone forever' No
Put in some pieces Of copper and the silver
reappears. II one force dissOlyes, another
force organizes.
Why should it be thought a thing incredible
with you that God should raise the dead'
The insects flew and the worms crawled
last autumn feebler and feebler and then
stopped. They have taken no food; they
want none They lay dormant and in
sensible, but soon the south wind will
blow the resurrection trumpet, and the
air and the earth will be full of them. Do
you not think that God can do as much
for our bodies as he does for the wasps
and the spiders and the snailsl This
morning at 4:30 O'Clock there was resur-
rection Out of the night the day. In
few weeks there will be resurrection
in all our gardens. Why not some day
resurrection amid all the graves!
Ever and anon there are instances Of
men and women entranced. A trance is
death followed by resurrection after a
few days; total suspension Of mental
power and action. Rev. Will
lam Tennent, great evangelist